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	Build Ukraine
		Mykola Azarov, who combines the posts of Ukrainian first deputy prime minister and finance minister, is a long-standing ally of President Leonid Kuchma.
		Azarov was elected an MP in 1994, and in 1995-97 he headed parliament's crucial budget committee.
		Azarov's tenure as tax chief was marked by accusations of using the office to clamp down on the opposition.
	www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/asarov.htm (565 words)

	Mykola Azarov: Ukraine's Economic Policy - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
		Mykola Azarov spoke at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the government's achievements in economic policy and its strategies for reform in a session moderated by Anders Aslund.
		Azarov hoped to have a law on VAT passed in May, lowering it from 20 percent to 15 percent.
		Azarov pledged that the government would be able to pass the tax package during the coming election year.
	www.carnegieendowment.org /events/index.cfm?fa=eventDetail&id=601& (1124 words)

	FirsTnews / Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		October 16, 2005 05:12 AM It is hardly a secret that during the so-called Yanukovych government, the person who was entrusted with all decisions relating to economic and fiscal matters was Mykola Azarov, the first vice prime minister and minister of finance.
		Azarov believes there was no need to review this year's budget in spring.
		At the same time, Azarov said that the Party of Regions is currently hammering out recommendations to the Cabinet of Ministers, which, in particular, will offer steps to reduce tax pressure, measures to boost export and continue tax reform.
	www.firstnews.com.ua /en/article.html?id=112232 (620 words)

	BNA International - International Information for International Business
		Azarov confirmed plans to cut the tax on corporate profits to 20% from 25% and the value-added tax to 18% from 20%.
		Azarov revealed that the government will explore how it could compensate investors who suffered unexpected losses when the zones were canceled.
		Azarov also said that the government is seeking to devalue Ukraine's currency, the hyrvna, which is currently pegged to the US dollar at a rate of 5 to 1, in a bid to reinvigorate the country's exporting industry, upon which the economy is heavily reliant.
	www.bnai.com /story.aspx?storyid=24498 (484 words)

	ForUm :: Ukraine's first vice PM met IMF representative to discuss national budget
		Touching on special (free) economic zones, Mykola Azarov stated the Cabinet's task as minimizing risks of budgetary means being used inadequately and/or inefficiently, in particular, through ensuring transparency of the special economic zones' performance.
		Mykola Azarov noted, the Government is contemplating to carry out the tax, judicial reforms and to step up countering corruption.
		Mykola Azarov also stated the Government as intent on preventing unscrupulous investors from enjoying undeserved franchises, particularly, if amounts of these exceed investment sums.
	eng.for-ua.com /news/2006/10/02/112316.html (518 words)

	AMBASSADE D'UKRAINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mykola Azarov congratulated the people of Ukraine on the UAH's jubilee and noted the hryvnia's rise over the past six years from 5.30 UAH per USD to 5.05 UAH for one dollar.
		In particular, Mykola Azarov complained about the Presidential Secretariat's hullabaloo over the Cabinet's amendments to its Rules with regard to the President's competence.
		Touching on the bill on the Cabinet of ministers, Mykola Azarov stated his opinion that, proceeding from the constitutional amendments, it would be logical to entrust the bill's drafting to the Government.
	www.ukraine.be /news/actualit/a030906.html (2009 words)

	2004: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: In other developments from Ukraine... (01/16/05)
		Azarov, a remnant of the Soviet era and ex-director of Ukraine's State Tax Administration, believed strong economic ties with Russia were in Ukraine's best interest.
		Azarov played a key role in the development of the Single Economic Space, the agreement proposed by Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, along with the state leaders of Kazakstan and Belarus, to organize their countries into a common market.
		Khoroshkovskyi's resignation, President Leonid Kuchma tapped Mykola Derkach to serve as minister of the economy and European integration.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2005/030514.shtml (6570 words)

	Pension Reform in Ukraine. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mykola Azarov stressed the consistency of the pension reform implemented by the government.
		Inadequate and actually indecent as for the people who have worked all their lives for the state, the level of pensions, and the leveling that nobody has been able to overcome since 1993, all this has had a negative daily impact on 14 million pensioners living in Ukraine.
		It was sponsored by the USAID Ukraine Pension Reform Implementation Project under the Treaty on Humanitarian, Technical and Economic Collaboration signed by Ukraine and USA on May 7, 1992.
	www.pension.kiev.ua /eng/Reform/news/azarov-sept18-2004.html (807 words)

	ISN Security Watch - The faces of Ukraine's new Cabinet
		Mykola Azarov will serve as both first deputy prime minister and finance minister, as he did during Yanukovych's first term.
		Azarov and Klyuyev are among Yanukovych's oldest and staunchest allies.
		While Nikolayenko is seen as a specialist in education and his reappointment was to be expected, Rudkovskyy's main contribution to Ukraine's transportation system seems to lie in his fondness for driving expensive cars and wearing smart suits.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=16502 (1275 words)

	Global Insight // Same-Day Analysis
		Mykola Azarov, a close ally of Yanukovych and head of parliament's budget committee was handed the deputy prime minister position in addition to the finance minister portfolio.
		Azarov also possesses close links to the Donetsk steel and chemical oligarchs and courted controversy as he was the force behind a parliamentary vote last month to restore the controversial opaque business tax breaks which had been scrapped after the Orange Revolution.
		In addition to Azarov, other prominent positions are reserved for senior PoR members or those figures close to the PoR power-base including control over the energy sector.
	www.globalinsight.com /SDA/SDADetail6548.htm (977 words)

	ANALYSIS: The single economic zone or the European Union? (09/14/03)
		Ukraine's Finance Minister and Vice Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, together with his counterparts from Russia, Belarus and Kazakstan, have approved a draft agreement on the formation of a single economic zone encompassing their countries.
		Azarov's briefing gave the EU no reason for worry over its relationship with Ukraine.
		"[Azarov] certainly managed to reassure everyone in the room that this was in no way contradictory to Ukraine's EU ambitions.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2003/370306.shtml (916 words)

	UNIAN
		Mykola Azarov briefly touched upon the questions raised in speeches at the Cabinet of Ministers’ sessions, according to the press-office of the Cabinet of Ministers.
		First Vice Prime Minister Mykola Azarov also informed that in the new budget the amount of regional budgets alone was raised by 2.1 bn.
		According to First Vice Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, the low level of inflation is explained as owing to great volume of foodstuffs, but the primary question here is to resume market of our products we have lost for now.
	www.unian.net /eng/news/news-168078.html (695 words)

	Economic News
		Criticism from the opposition is largely based on ignoring the realities of the situation, he said.
		If I had to choose the single most important indicator according to which a conclusion could be made that the Ukrainian economy had emerged from the many years of crisis and was gaining momentum, I would first of all talk about the state budget.
		Incidentally, the rise in Ukraine's investment attractiveness, improvement of our sovereign ratings and headlong growth of internal and external investments are obvious evidence that we are on the right path.
	artukraine.com /econews/azarov.htm (3706 words)

	Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
		One such long and torturous story (which also features Mykola Melnichenko and his recordings) involves a prominent banker whom former President Leonid Kuchma is said to have conspired to intimidate, jail and destroy.
		In correspondence from prison with the Kyiv Post, Feldman writes that the interview came months before Pyskun’s boss, then STA chief Mykola Azarov, blurted out to reporters that recordings made in 2000 in President Leonid Kuchma’s office are “fakes” - recordings on which Kuchma and his cronies allegedly discuss framing Feldman.
		Azarov also claimed they were deliberately falsified on Feldman’s instructions, to prove he had been unjustly accused.
	www.publiuspundit.com /wp-trackback.php?p=633 (1181 words)

	Ukraine Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mykola Shvets, 44, became mayor of Dnipropetrovsk in 1994.
		Mykola Azarov said he is strongly opposed to the proposals made by the authors of the alternative draft tax code to cancel VAT and the corporate income tax and to replace them by a single sales tax.
		As Mykola Azarov pointed out, the governmental draft simplifies the procedure for calculating the income tax on natural persons as there will be only 3 rates ranging from 10% to 30% instead of the existing 5 rates.
	www.ukraine.org /www.ukrainet.lviv.ua/infobank/1999/0505e.html (1288 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Ukraine tries to stem food panic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The government was in full control of the situation and would take all necessary measures to ensure efficient supplies and force prices down, said First Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.
		Mr Azarov said the government had enough resources to buy grain, flour and cereals at normal prices.
		Mr Azarov warned state officials that if they made any statements provoking market speculation, they would be asked to resign.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3020500.stm (236 words)

	Incorporation, Incorporation Services, Company Incorporation
		It is a sad fact that Ukraine has been dominated for the last ten years by criminal, or anyway, corrupt interests linked to the 'financial-industrial complex' and with the ability to prevent reforms which would damage its interests.
		Azarov told a recent television interviewer that the history of the tax code represented a failure of all branches of power.
		'According to the constitution,' said Mr Azarov, 'the 2002 budget should be presented to the parliament on 15 August, while now we can form it using the old taxation base only.'
	www.companiesinc.com /cinewsletter/august2001/story4870.asp (349 words)

	UKRINFORM: news from Ukraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ukraine is pleased with development of its trade-economic relations with Malaysia and views that country as a promising partner, First Vice Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Thursday, addressing a Malaysian delegation, who were led by Minister of Foreign Affairs Syed Hamid bin Syed Jaafar Albar.
		Mr Azarov mentioned railroad construction as another cooperation field, in which Ukraine could assist Malaysia in construction of railroads and could ship rolling stock to Malaysia.
		As Mr Azarov stressed, Ukraine wields high authority in construction of electric power plants in Asia, particularly in India, Vietnam, China, as well as Iraq, so Ukraine could aid Malaysia in constructing hydroelectric and fuel-fired power plants.
	www.ukraineinfo.us /news/news-0212/021219-12.html (229 words)

	Maidan - News - Ukraine Could Get Another Yanukovich Right Before Election Re-run
		Leonid D. Kuchma refused to sign a decree to dismiss Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, arguing that according to the Law "On Elections of the President of Ukraine," a presidential candidate cannot be fired.
		Kuchma plans to sign a decree on Yanukovych's leave and to appoint Mykola Azarov as acting Prime-Minister.
		Mykola Azarov doesn't seem to have ever provided reason to doubt his personal qualities.
	eng.maidanua.org /static/enews/1102436892.html (226 words)

	ForUm :: Mykola Azarov: The negotiations on coalition to be held after the final results
		Mykola Azarov: The negotiations on coalition to be held after the final results
		When meeting the President Yushchenko and PM Yekhanurov, Victor Yanukovich the PR leader managed to regulate the question of holding the negotiations relating to the coalition formation after the official poll results to be announced.
		“According to the results of consultations, the mechanism of negotiations may be started up only after the official announcement of the election results,” stressed Mykola Azarov the Head of the PR Political Council.
	en.for-ua.com /news/2006/03/31/130221.html (469 words)

	Interfax > Finance & Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sept 1 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian government intends to create the conditions for annual GDP growth to accelerate to 12%-15%, Finance Minister Mykola Azarov said at a meeting with students on Friday.
		The government intends to modernize the economy, develop state-of- the-art technologies and grant free access to energy in order to achieve this, Azarov said.
		The draft 2007 budget forecasts GDP growth of 6.5%, inflation of 7.5% and an average exchange rate of 5.1 hryvni/$1.
	www.interfax.ru /e/B/0/26.html?id_issue=11581830 (249 words)

	USATODAY.com - Poisoning doesn't surprise Yushchenko supporters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ukraine's Cabinet, meanwhile, met for the first time since the opposition protesters ended their blockade of government buildings earlier this week, allowing the ministers to enter the gray Stalin-era government building to talk about the impact of the recent turmoil.
		Acting Prime Minister Mykola Azarov told the Cabinet that ministers were talking with Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party about the economy.
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	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-12-11-yuschenko-supporters_x.htm (778 words)

	President meets Finance Minister Azarov
		Victor Yushchenko has met with Finance Minister Mykola Azarov to speak about Ukraine's WTO accession.
		The President expressed hopes bills he had submitted to parliament last week would be supported by both the government and MPs, for “they are based on bilateral agreements used to sign bilateral protocols between Ukraine and members of the WTO working group.”
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	www.president.gov.ua /en/news/data/1_11317.html (118 words)

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